{"title":"Stephanie Phillips","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"why-solange-matters","title":"Why Solange Matters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/blog.roughtrade.com\/uk-books-of-the-year-2021\"\u003eRough Trade Books of the Year #13\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dramatic story of a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name. Growing up in the shadow of her superstar sister Beyonce, and defying an industry that attempted to bend her to its rigid image of a Black woman, Solange Knowles has become a pivotal musician and artist in her own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Why Solange Matters, Stephanie Phillips chronicles the creative journey of Solange, a beloved voice for the Black Lives Matter generation. A Black feminist punk musician herself, Phillips addresses not only the unpredictable trajectory of Solange's career but also how she and other Black women see themselves through the musician's repertoire. First, she traces Solange's progress through an inflexible industry, charting the artist's development up to 2016, when the release of her third album, A Seat at the Table, redefined her career. Then, with A Seat at the Table and 2019's When I Get Home, Phillips describes how Solange has embraced activism, anger, Black womanhood, and\u003cbr\u003eintergenerational trauma to inform her remarkable art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephanie Phillips is a London-based music journalist and musician who writes for the Independent, The Quietus, Vice, Bandcamp and The Wire. She started the Black feminist punk band Big Joanie and played backup for Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney. She is also part of the collective behind Decolonise Fest, a festival celebrating punks of colour. Why Solange Matters not only cements the subject in the pantheon of world- changing twenty-first century musicians; it introduces its writer as an important new voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50413664633163,"sku":"1116563","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/18579b97-8383-4bf8-9a6a-75ccee242351_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726675940"},{"product_id":"we-were-here-a-history-of-black-people-and-alternative-music","title":"We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eA reclamation of rock'n'roll for the Black artists who tore up and re-wrote its rules, by musician, arts and culture journalist and die-hard alternative music super- fan, Stephanie Phillips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe Were Here promises to rip up our received history of rock ’n’ roll and alternative music and repopulate it with the extraordinary Black artists and influential figures who helped steer its course from the 1930s to the present day, including vital figures Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, Tina Turner, Betty Davis, Poly Styrene, Bad Brains and beyond. As well as reflecting on why Black people have continued to be drawn to alternative music despite their ongoing ostracization from it by the white mainstream industry, Phillips argues that there would be no alternative music without Black artists, and that its future lies in the hands of Gen Z Black musicians experimenting with the boundaries of what punk, metal, hardcore and indie could be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Hardback - Signed plus Postcard","offer_id":57149303259467,"sku":"R2969-6320","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57876268450123,"sku":"R2969-3184","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9780571381104.jpg?v=1777394555"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/stephanie-phillips.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}